Cornell offers 70 minors to undergraduates, listed below. Students may pursue minors in any department in any college that offers them, subject to limitations placed by the department offering the minor or by the student's major.

Minors are controlled, tracked, and audited by the academic department or unit in which they are offered. Completed minors will appear on the student's official transcript.

Graduate study at Cornell is interdisciplinary by design. Fields span departments and even disciplines. Graduate students are admitted to fields of study, which are composed of faculty members who come together around shared intellectual interests and may draw from different campuses or colleges.

For example, the graduate field of economics includes faculty from:

policy analysis and management (College of Human Ecology)

applied economics and management (College of Agriculture & Life Sciences)

industrial and labor relations (School of Industrial and Labor Relations)